Example sentences of "a few days [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack and Alison were going for a few days to Amsterdam . |
| 2 | Within a few days of Elizabeth 's death the reivers had taken what they imagined would be the opportunity for easy plunder , and swarmed over the Border in what their victims and the Wardens referred to as ‘ Ill Week ’ . |
| 3 | But after a few days of Margery 's company ‘ the worshipful woman sped herself fast out of Akun with all her retinue ’ . |
| 4 | AND you receive the magazine within a few days of UK publication . |
| 5 | Within a few days of Prince Albert 's death , young Henry Joseph Titford , aged nine , fell ill with tubercular bronchitis . |
| 6 | After spending a few days at Snaefellsness , our final goal was the fabulous Lake Mývatn . |
| 7 | After a few days at Broadlands , they flew to Gibraltar to join the Royal Yacht Britannia for a two-week cruise in and around the Mediterranean . |
| 8 | Sometimes Elise would come up to London to spend a few days at Merrill 's flat and together they visited galleries , and saw a show . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's spending a few days with Maria Luisa in Valencia on the mainland , ’ Fernando told her at last . |
| 10 | In April the Prince went off to the Kalahari Desert for a few days with Sir Laurens Van der Post , to see for himself the society that his friend had written and talked about so much . |
| 11 | On the second anniversary of the Lockerbie disaster , a few days after Pan Am obtained leave to file its third-party suit against the US government , Steven Emerson aired an ‘ exclusive ’ on Cable News Network about the wave of speculation linking the DEA with the bombing of Flight 103 . |
| 12 | Backstage at Leeds Grand Theatre , a few days after Swan Lake 's royal premiere elicited a five-minute standing ovation from the audience , Gable talks long and intelligently about the controversial production . |
| 13 | For Theda had been woken one night , a few days after Mr Aycliffe 's visit , by Hector whining next door . |
| 14 | He was killed when he stepped on a mine in Indochina on 25 May 1954 , a few days after Bischof 's death . |
| 15 | A few days after Ranulf 's encounter with the drunken porter , Corbett decided that , for the moment , there was little else he could learn in the priory . |
| 16 | A few days after Hitler 's repetition of his ‘ prophecy ’ on 30 January 1942 , the SD reported that his words had been ‘ interpreted to mean that the Führer 's battle against the Jews would be followed through to the end with merciless consistency , and that very soon the last Jew would disappear from European soil ’ . |
| 17 | Bush emphasized that he still hoped to avert war , and that a meeting could still go ahead in Baghdad between US Secretary of State James Baker and President Saddam Hussein a few days after Jan. 3 . |
| 18 | Sometimes , people in ancient places , in flashes of paranormal imagination , see once again the Forum in Pompeii as it must have been a few days before Mount Etna 's eruption ; or — was it Freud 's or Jung 's story ? — musicians in a Rhenish Schloss , playing clavichords for a duke and his family . |
| 19 | A few days before Anthony 's death they had been together at the Lancaster Road Baths watching local semi-professional boxers . |
| 20 | Brunel was a successful naval architect , and an outstanding builder of bridges and tunnels , to say nothing of his three great steamships , the Great Western , which sailed out of the Bristol Channel to open up the first regular passenger service between Europe and America ; the Great Britain ( see Bristol ) ; and the Great Eastern , which began its maiden voyage a few days before Brunel 's death in 1859 , and remained the largest ship afloat for nearly half a century . |
| 21 | Trouble flared a few days before MacQuillan 's death , when it became apparent the inventor was in effect conducting an auction and the price of buying the securely patented new carton had shot alarmingly high . |
| 22 | It was a few days before Michael Ramsey first became an undergraduate at his college . |
| 23 | Over a few days in May 1984 Puhe accompanied Andrew Kerr of FoE Scotland and other campaigners in a tour of Scotland , England and Wales which took in 47 sites , at 31 of which beech , Douglas fir and spruce were found with the same symptoms as those in West Germany . |
| 24 | From Winnipeg — where he had to work a bootlegging ruse to get a drink — he hitched to New York to stay with some friends of Philip : they were in Vermont and so he busked a few days in Manhattan , perhaps even sang for his supper in Greenwich Village . |
| 25 | Wallington notes that road-blocks ‘ were widely used , especially within and on access roads to Nottinghamshire , but also elsewhere — notably ( for a few days in March 1984 ) at the south entrance to the Dartford tunnel . |
| 26 | ZOOLOGIST Terry Walton stopped off for a few days in India in 1967 . |
| 27 | Dana and I spent a few days in London again before travelling to Spain . |
| 28 | As a soldier stationed on the South Coast at the time of D- Day , I spent a few days in London where I attended the Proms . |
| 29 | In a month 's time we 'll have a quiet wedding in the local church , and after a few days in London we 'll travel through all the countries of Europe . ’ |
| 30 | And then we stayed a few days in London and we went to the Baths and we went to the zoo and we went to all the science , by either the old trams or the first of the buses that Cos they complete with tram-riding and that was rather exciting in London , seeing the all the top hats and people in coats , tails and things . |